Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Web & mobile developer & consultant
Editor & contributor at mobiForge
Author of "AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages"
Runs westerntechnological.ie
Latest Articles by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Vertical Search just got better
September 29, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
One of the new goodies we developed for mobiForge was our Vertical Search feature. This search replaces the stock search functionality bundled with the CMS that mobiForge runs on. If you haven't tried it out yet, in a nutshell, Vertical Search combines mobiForge search results with relevant results from various other mobile resource sites from around the web... Read More
Open source LBS
September 24, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Location based services are becoming more and more prevalent every day, with innovative applications that make use of location, like FireEagle, and Google Maps for Mobile, popping up all the time. We've just published the first part of a two-part piece on Location via CellID, and the open source database of CellIDs, OpenCellID... Read More
Ready.mobi v2.1.1 is live
June 19, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
You can probably guess by the version number 2.1.1 (from 2.1), there is nothing ground-breaking in this release. Just a few more bug fixes. In particular we have fixed a bug that caused the use of multiple tags in your markup to reduce your overall score... Read More
Free developer event in San Francisco Bay Area this Friday
May 27, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Just a quick reminder about our developer event in the San Francisco Bay Area this Friday 30th May. If you are in the Bay Area, and fancy a FREE breakfast, followed by a FREE developer session, then pop on down to the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park on Friday at 9am... Read More
Ready.mobi v2.1
May 14, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We pushed out our first update to ready.mobi for some time last weekend. Well, you can stop salivating for now, as there are no new features to announce just yet; this release has focused on bug-fixes and such. Most notably version 2.1 includes:... Read More
Dev.mobi update
April 23, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A quick heads up on a couple of changes to dev.mobi. We've been talking about upgrading the forums for a while, and well, we've done it (at least in part, consider it a work in progress). We've tidied up the thread layout a bit. In particular we now display your user stats: when you joined, how many times you've posted, and whether you are online or not... Read More
dev.mobi Over The Air
April 2, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Over the Air, the 48 hour mobile un-conference and code-fest is happening in London this coming Friday & Saturday. We're sponsoring the event and Ronan, Jo and Andrea will be attending. There will be a hands-on all you need to know about DeviceAtlas in one hour session, presented by Andrea, and Ronan will be presenting the SVG masterclass... Read More
We’re jammin’
March 26, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
mobiForge is sponsoring the Mobile Jam Session in Las Vegas next Monday 31 March (the day before CTIA). Following hot on the heels of a successful kick-off jam session in Barcelona during MWC last month, it promises to be a day to inspire new ideas and innovate solutions within the mobile ecosystem. Jam on!... Read More
6 mobile stats you might not know
March 21, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A quick glance at some Irish & European data just published by Comreg, Ireland's Communications Regulator, in its latest report: 140% - the level of mobile penetration in Italy & Greece (EU high), compared with 88% in France (EU low), and EU average of 108%... Read More
Blogger mobile
March 1, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Do you use Blogger? Need a mobile template? We recently had a request in our forums for a mobile template for Blogger, and a few searches later ('blogger mobile template' etc.) and I knew how to post to a Blogger blog from my phone, but not how to make it accessible to mobile users...Blogger uses a template system which allows users to create and customise their own templates... Read More
